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Poster:	Greg Surh	Date:	Jun 18, 2015 9:05am
Forum:	news	Subject:	Good - This Pop-Up Library Will Be Built Entirely of Books

Bibliophiles in Berkeley, CA are dreaming up a library completely made of books. The pop-up installation, called Lacuna, will be constructed from 50,000 books they hope to give away for free at the first-ever Bay Area Book Festival this summer. The structure was designed and will be built by the FLUX Foundation, a local arts collective whose missions is to bolster communities through large-scale art installations.

The team drew up the blueprints of Lacuna with notions of public space in mind. As festivalgoers pull away books to take home, they will be effectively dismantling the structure, leaving only the library’s skeleton in their wake. Through this gradual deconstruction of the space, they will be able to witness how individual and collective choices and imaginings have the ability to create or take apart public spaces.

“Like a library, this structure creates a uniquely collaborative, civic space where we can collectively appreciate the important and varied contributions of our community, which is every day enriched by our collective literary landscape,” FLUX writes.

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